Following up on our post for “Cousins” The Song, here’s “Cousins” the video: The single art’s shot of the boys in a long alley doused in confetti fit the song’s manically festive, church-belled punk racer, but is pretty much a direct still from the Garth Jennings-direct clip itself, which has the kids trade spaces on a moving platform and at the fringes, on ladders and wearing masks of each other. It’s quick, quirky, and unpredictable but not without a sense of humor about itself, so pretty much perfect for a band of Ivy Leaguers who aren’t above self-satirizing their prepped up ways. Also, love the colored-tape art by (or inspired by) Brooklyn’s Aakash Nihalani. (UPDATE: Nope, not by Aakash. Interesting.)

Contra is out 1/12 via XL. And according to a tip from We All Want Someone, the Japanese version of the LP will feature two bonus tracks in “Ottoman” (also featured on the Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist soundtrack) and “Little Giant,” which has been in the band’s live rep for awhile. To refresh yourself, it sounds like this:

This is really the first one that has followed me around whether I wanted it to or not(nice new newyorker cover)…a big dissappointment actually(the video)…It had major comic potential…(crazy cast of characters dancing in supermarket isles…

I like it. It sounds enough like their old stuff that I’m not disappointed, and it sounds different enough that I’m not bored.
Wait they ripped off some obscure visual artist?!?!
Nvrmnd i h8 tihs song.

What’s going on here?? Are we listening to the same track? This stuff is incredible, and who cares if they borrow some small aspect of aakash nihalani’s art, who isnt lifting ideas in 2009? You guys are on the wrong page or something…

“A-Punk” may have been the debut’s signifier, but it was also its low point. That may be subject to debate, but I think it’s pretty clear that this is what that song should have been. The rare, better than the original sequel. Toy Story 2.

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